During the early nineties, a wave of Chinese immigrants turned their backs on their old careers and descended upon the States as an army of software engineers. Anyone could quickly learn to speak in 1s and 0s and single-word functions and semicolons. Tony still didn’t understand why Americans themselves didn’t want such high-paying jobs. Kim guessed that it was too much work for too low of a profile. Regardless, they saw the opportunity and crawled through that hole to America. Neither of them regretted their decision, but it didn’t mean it was easy to live with either.
In China, they had had everything, but by way of a trusted grapevine, they learned that everything they had was better in America. In America, middle-class people could afford to live in single-family houses instead of cra
